Ivan the Fool
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Tags: Classics, Short Stories
ISBN:0192838091
About the Author
Born into an aristocratic Russian family, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was able to enjoy a life of luxury from the very first. Throughout his life, however, and perhaps inspired by personal losses from which even his financial comfort could not protect him, he remained intrigued by philosophical questions about the nature of human existence. Through military service and well into his career as a writer, Tolstoy sought higher truths and found the materialistic lifestyle of many around him to be quite empty. Best known for his novels Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy was an extremely prolific writer, with a full catalog of short stories, plays, and non-fiction to his name.
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IVAN THE FOOL.
In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a fool)--and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went to war, to serve the Czar; Tarras went to a city and became a merchant; and Ivan, with his sister, ...
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4/5
Reviewed by changolote on Oct 23, 2009
nice moral
Perhaps a nice moral for today--the honor of hard work, necessity of sharing.
4/5
Reviewed by maria.alii on Jan 6, 2009
Interesting
It is a nice little story. It is funny and very simple to read. It tries to convince the reader that you have plenty of everything if you use your hands not your brain, certainly a Russian thing, not in the tzar interest that peasants to be clever.
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Ratings for 'Ivan the Fool' by Tolstoy, Leo
| anthamay | | 2008-12-07 | |
| babblative |  | 2009-03-22 | |
| changolote | | Read review | 2009-10-23 |
| geezler |  | 2009-08-19 | |
| Mahyarg | | 2008-11-25 | |
| maria.alii | | Read review | 2009-01-06 |
| mmreyna1 | | 2009-06-20 | |
| suednimm |  | 2009-01-10 | |
| wishes2891 | | 2009-01-11 |
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